Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experienced Sunday stroller, the large cluster of people, police, and cars assembled last week at the juncture of Garden Street and Mass. Avenue would have meant a traffic mishap. Now to be witness to one traffic mishap is the due of every Sunday stroller, and as the size of this gathering promised something special, I hurried toward it expectantly...
...afternoon, Ford had been forced, into only three minor revisions in his testimony: (1) the blood clot did not dam the whole vein, but just 95 percent; (2) a patient lying on her back needs somewhat less air to cause death; and (3) although the clot meant a slow strangulation of the blood stream, it didn't disprove sudden death...
...pocket, as poets' pockets go. Friends estimate that Eliot makes about ?4,000 ($11,200) a year, including some ?2,500 of royalties from his books and plays. His income from The Cocktail Party in Manhattan is about $1,600 a week. *Eliot refuses to say what he meant by it. Literally, "loving numerous offspring...
...Sermon on the Mount, with its advice not to resist evil, to turn the other cheek and to love one's enemies, according to Father Messineo, was meant for individuals only, not collective groups. "It is the inalienable right of a collectivity to defend its integrity and existence against unjust aggression . . . The citizen has the duty to render the society to which he belongs . . . the indispensable service of picking up arms and fighting to the utmost of his fully exploited capabilities in defense of his community menaced by unjust aggression." Conscientious objectors, he warned, "are guilty of Lucifer-like...
Warsaw's Jews first thought that the Nazis' coming meant" no more than a switch of anti-Semitic rulers. The book describes their slow wakening to the realities of race murder as the Germans first wall them in, then wipe them out, block by block. At its opening the trapped Jews are living normal city lives; at its close they can take a crying baby from its mother's breast and kill it, for fear of the Germans who are searching for hidden survivors. The book ends, symbolically, with a group of ghetto men, liberated from their...